More on Gravity

This article, from the New York Times, discusses a scientist and his thoughts on gravity. I hope you read the article. I like his line at the end that scientists have know for quite awhile that gravity does not exist.

The cutting edge of science is again saying that matter and gravity do not exist. They claim that we are having a holographic experience. In essence they are attempting to prove that there is no reality, that reality is an illusion. Where do you go from there?

If there is no matter than the whole idea of evolution fails, lots of beliefs fail. String theory of quantum physics proposes that everything is one, connected. It is a scientific explanation of gnosticism. What impact will this have on thinking, on our world view.

I was speaking to a lady I work with today. I asked her if life sometimes seems surreal, she laughed and said how she had been thinking the same thing all weekend and wanted to talk to me about it, that is synchronicity. We talked about how things just don't make sense anymore.

I have many people talk to me about how the world has turned upside down and crazy. Everybody has a sense of this. Things were not always this way. Lets take a quick survey of some things.

We have seen more changes in the last two years than in the last 50 and with little, if any, debate. We watched congress pass the TARP bailout with members of congress being threatened with martial law. They were threatened with military force. We then saw the government takeover the banks, large insurance companies and the auto industry.

We hear endless drivel about global warming; but, we all know it is bunk. The BP oil spill, what a joke, ask any engineer if they could have capped that well. The housing bubble that nobody noticed until it collapsed. Do we not have any honest economists? We had farm workers and janitors buying $600,000 homes on $25,000 a year incomes.

Socially we are a complete mess. The biggest issue in churches is not what is going on around us it is whether or not they should have gay ministers or support gay marriage. The next biggest issue is all of the pedophile priests and the churches failure to act. Wife swapping is all the rage in classical suburban neighborhoods.

Lets look at the schools. Not a week goes by where some teacher, usually female, is not being arrested for sleeping with one of her 12 year old students. Our cultural icons are destroyed one by one. Mel Gibson's constantly getting in trouble for racist slurs, Tiger Woods needs to have 20 hookers at once, Lance Armstrong accused of using steroids, the Olson twins look like heroin junkies, America's sweetheart Sandra Bullock is cheated on in public. Do we have any examples of what used to be considered normal?

Day after day we are continually being told that everything is falling apart, nothing works and nobody can be trusted. Top it with scientists telling us that this is all just an illusion. The effect of all of this is to drive kids into virtual worlds where they kill virtual people all day or worse yet send them into the army where they can do it for real all day in Iraq.

For children to grow well, they need stability, that is the number one thing they need. If they feel they are in a stable environment, they feel able to push the boundaries and grow. Instead we live in an unstable world and kids retreat into a virtual stable environment.

What is the answer we are given for these times, drugs. When my divorce began a psychologist, not my therapist, saw me for ten minutes and wanted to put me on 140 milligrams of Effexor a day. I did not have a history of depression, I was getting divorced. Way too many people on mood altering drugs. I got over my depression; but, the drugs would have been for life. I didn't need drugs and neither do most people, they need to learn to live through difficulties.

There can be short periods of time when some drugs can be helpful. Giving a grieving mother a Valium a couple of times to help her to sleep is okay, putting her on them for life is not. We are drugging our children into zombies. Things didn't use to be like this.

We are destroying the gravity of life. "Things fall apart, the center will not hold". Children watch "reality shows" all day showing people hopping from bed to bed with no real commitments and less direction. We reward the people who destroyed our economy with million dollar bonuses while they laugh at people who try to make an honest living.

This is not a rant about what is going on in the world, it is an observation. My issue is what effect this is having on the people growing up. What will they believe in when we are quite methodically teaching them that you cannot trust anyone or anything and that everybody is self centered and corrupt?

Aside from the insanity, the problem is us. If we want stability we must promote stability. We must stop looking for shortcuts. Everyone wants to be a "player" who makes millions for doing little. We want all the cookies and are never satisfied. Our children text sexually explicit words to each other in school and post half naked pictures of themselves on the web while their parents attend swinger parties.

If we teach our children to win at any cost and that greed is good and that marriage commitments are not commitments, if we teach our children that it is okay to steal and cheat our neighbors, then it should be the end times. We cannot have a stable society built on corruption because it becomes our children. You cannot work in the porn industry and not have it effect your life.

Where is the societal gravity, where is the moral compass? Perhaps like in quantum physics, it is just imaginary, a perception. When we stop having the will, we stop having gravity. It is not the bankers, the jews, the catholics, the blacks, the illegal aliens, it is us. Who teaches their children manners or more importantly, that other people are as important as they are. If we don't teach our kids that, this is the type of society we get. It is the type of country and world we get too.